Captain_Curmudgeon

As you can guess from my (infrequent, but not lately) postings, more LDS, but not this Latter. More like 50 to 60 years less latter. I'm comfortable in the church of my childhood, a Stranger in a much-too familiar land (mainstream "Christian" fundamentalist) now.

Yeah. I've been waiting for "because it tastes good."

Strang is also responsible for the hyphen in "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." After the break up, he managed to get hold of the rights to "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints."(PS. After the Strangites were driven from Beaver Island, some of my wife's relatives gained possession of Strangite property.)

I can think of one possible modern instance. Prophet, seer, revelator, and President David O. McKay asked Bruce R. McConkie NOT to reprint Mormon Doctrine but he did, implicitly saying that he knew more about Mormon doctrine than David O. McKay.

I must be out of the loop. Has Dieter Uchtdorf (whom I like for other reasons) claimed to have had revelations? Other general authorities?

Forgot the other stream: Mormonism according to George Lucas.

Interesting to me that our doctrine becomes more like the mainstream as time passes. Sixty years ago, when I was a kid, God was a distinct person and had his limitations the same as any other person. Now He's becoming the same bundle of attributes as the more literate priests of the Roman state religion picked up from the Greek philosophers before 380.

One of the legs of Hume's Triangle: if GOD is Omniscient, if GOD is Omnipotent, and if GOD is Omnibenevolent, how comes evil into the world?I remember in my youth that some LDS teacher with a degree in philosophy (not religion) said that we're about the only Christian church that escapes Hume's triangle. I think that two legs are broken because the GOD of Mormonism is a real person and not a series of abstractions derived from Aristotelian and Platonic philosophy. YMMV.

By other rumors. Source at USU? S/he may have the straight dope but I want a lot more than this before I believe it.Skeptic. That's me.

USN, 1963-67, USS Sellers, DDG-11 (and MCB6 (Seabees), DaNang, VN). Ain't a boat, ain't a suitcase. Go read Melville. A ship at sea is at the furthest remove from the venue of most religions, which are pastoral. Drove Noah to drink.

It would be nice if they could get a contract like the one Notre Dame has: all home games on NBC.

Hah! Just like ward teaching!

For me, uniformly horrible.

I have a friend who owns one and he says it's not clear to him which is the fatal end of that rifle.

That's what I came here to say. Back when I belonged, the NRA had an excellent one. Now it seems to have disappeared. But hunting goes beyond safety. If you're going to be a good hunter, you must acquire a pretty good skill set, not excluding field dressing, or you will just be wasting your time and animals' lives.Best bet: find a friend who has been hunting for decades and get permission to go with him.

Oddly enough, Kent Clark, who was on the faculty at CalTech, was a Mormon. Everyone called him "ManSuper."

If you're not supposed to watch TV on the sabbath, why is KBYU broadcasting on all four channels all day? If I can watch America's Test Kitchen on KBYU-4, why can't I watch the Super Bowl on CBS, which KSL-TV used to be a part of? PS. If you shouldn't watch TV, why should you be able to watch the Internet?

Who cares? After Janet Jackson, it's all down hill. I turn to another channel or eat or take a nap or a walk or .... during the half time. I came for football and when it's not on, I go elsewhere.

If this hadn't been a football post, it could have been startling news. Godless doing the happy dance. I can think of some examples of things that would have the godless doing the happy dance, but I don't want to get banned again.

Zone Alarm used to allow you to download just their firewall for free and I used it for years -- until a Microsoft "patch" release killed it. Good stuff then. If you were running the firewall, you were invisible to probes from the Internet. Since then, I've been using the firewall that comes with my anti-virus software. Really like to get my firewall and my anti-virus on my router and away from any computer.

Since I lost my last home teachers, every home visit so far (and that's about 50 percent of the months) has been outside on the roadway. Meet my home teacher when I'm getting my daily walk and he's driving someplace and spots me. So, extra charge for mobile service?

Random thoughts (that's the best I can do lately). There was a truly gruesome incident in Idaho in the past. When I studied it, it made me about lose my lunch. The fact that there had even been an incident was classified then and still may be now. Believe me: you don't want to know the details.Once I grasped the simple fact that the supply of oil is not infinite and that we'd probably reached the peak, I immediately tried to find out how to invest in nuclear power. Not that simple -- if you have some ideas, please post them here. Looks even better when you see how slowly the research into alternatives or even the recognition that we're going to need them is.The plan for a nuclear plant in southern Utah is a pipe dream fueled, as usual, by some get-rich scheme of some member of the Utah Legislature. Cooling water.I wouldn't invest in fusion schemes. They've been "promising" since I was in my 20s (look at my avatar photo).If fusion ever does work, it's going be incredible (check out Ossian's Ride by Fred Hoyle).Not in my back yard. Elsewhere, how do I buy some?

Despite the poor showing last week, I've picked a couple of home dogs to try to get back in this. Just one person to beat to win the group Survivor title.

Four words: Francis the Talking Mule. Six movies in all.

No desk. What I hate is that the commercial breaks seem to be as long as they were at 11 (or whenever). Leno obviously has some incriminating photos of top network officials or this show wouldn't last long.